THE Put did an excellent job to place two points in the ninth to send the match on Saturday with the Washington Nationals in an additional sleeve, but the result could have changed if Carlos Mendoza had left Edwin Diaz For a second round?
Diaz launched a 10th goalless round, but Mendoza went with Tyler Rogers – Punishment for the third consecutive day – to manage the 11th. While Rogers was about to launch a clean round, Daylen Lile struck a two -point circuit and inside the park to advance the Nationals. We will never know if Diaz being on the mound would have changed the result, but it is a good question to ask the skipper of the dishes.
So when Mendoza was asked if he had planned to use Diaz for a second round, the second year director said he had not done so.
"He launched two nights ago, was hot yesterday," Mendoza explained. "We are only linked. A round today."
Diaz launched 15 throws, withdrawing two strikers on Thursday to finish the Padres and win the victory of the series. He warmed up in the ninth round of the opening of the Friday series against the Nats when Chris Devenski started to get into trouble. Diaz sat down once Devenski straightened the ship.
After launching 53.2 rounds in 54 games last season – the first since its return from an operation in the knee – Diaz overshadowed this, launching 59.1 rounds in 57 games.
Get the chances of winning
In the ninth, the dishes were in a position of choice to leave the Nats and their closestJose Ferrer.
Ferrer had granted two points to allow the dishes to reduce their deficit to 3-2 in eighth round, but the acting director of the Nationals Miguel Cairo asked his closest to try to get three other withdrawals in the ninth and could not.
The dishes had loaded bases with an outing when Brandon Nimmo came to the plate. The Lefty Ferrer turned Nimmo on a 1-2 cursor in dirt to pick up the important second outing. Starling hammer Followed, withdrawn while swinging on a 1-2 lead which has moved away from 100 mi / h from the bogneur veteran, failing the winning race in the third.
"He made throws, we had very good at-bats, had the bases loaded with a guy, you feel good in your chances, even if Ferrer can be difficult on the left, you try your luck with Nim by putting the ball in play," Mendoza said about the situation in the ninth. "He had it this time. He executed, then he obtained Marte with two withdrawals. Until this point, the guys took very good strikes there."
The dishes would have another chance of winning in the 10th with runners the first and the second and not, but Francisco Alvarez based on a double game and Ronny Mauricio Aligned on the left field with the winning race at the third goal.
New York finished match 3 for 16 with runners in the rating position and left 13 on the basis.
Defensive inconsistencies
After having officially made a mistake with a few defensive errors mixed in Friday’s victory, the dishes hit the ball again in the match on Saturday.
The biggest errors occurred in the third round. At the bottom of 1-0, Riley Adams Hit a simple bloop on the left field that Juan Soto I tried to play on a rebound, but he jumped his glove and rolled on the wall, allowing a scoring race. The following dough, Pete Alonso Throw the high balloon for Nolan McLean, Give the NATS an supplement and the second error in the team’s round. With two withdrawals, McLean has launched wild land, allowing an unprecedented race to mark from the third base.
"We were incoherent," Mendoza said about the team’s defense. "We cross stretches where we play clean, then go through stretching where it happens. We don’t have too much time, but the only thing we can do here is to turn the page because we have 1 hour tomorrow. Even if we did not play a clean game early, the guys retaliated and we were able to win this match, I did not do it."
